The Sloan Lens ACS (SLACS) Survey. IX. Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Auger M.W.
  2. Treu T.
  3. Bolton A.S.
  4. Gavazzi R.
  5. Koopmans L.V.E.,Marshall P.J.
  6. Bundy K.
  7. Moustakas L.A.
  8. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

We present the current photometric data set for the Sloan Lens ACS (SLACS) Survey, including Hubble Space Telescope (HST) photometry from Advanced Camera for Surveys, WFPC2, and NICMOS. These data have enabled the confirmation of an additional 15 grade "A" (certain) lens systems, bringing the number of SLACS grade "A" lenses to 85; including 13 grade "B" (likely) systems, SLACS has identified nearly 100 lenses and lens candidates. Approximately 80% of the grade "A" systems have elliptical morphologies while ~10% show spiral structure; the remaining lenses have lenticular morphologies. Spectroscopic redshifts for the lens and source are available for every system, making SLACS the largest homogeneous data set of galaxy-scale lenses to date. The ensemble properties of the SLACS lens galaxies, e.g., stellar masses and projected ellipticities, appear to be indistinguishable from other SDSS galaxies with similar stellar velocity dispersions. This further supports that SLACS lenses are representative of the overall population of massive early-type galaxies with M_*_>~10^11^M_{sun}_, and are therefore an ideal data set to investigate the kpc-scale distribution of luminous and dark matter in galaxies out to z~0.5.

Keywords
  1. gravitational-lensing
  2. galaxies
  3. visible-astronomy
  4. hst-photometry
  5. redshifted
  6. surveys
  7. galaxy-classification-systems
Bibliographic source Bibcode
2009ApJ...705.1099A
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doi:10.26093/cds/vizier.17051099

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History

2012-01-02T14:25:09Z
Resource record created
2012-01-02T14:25:09Z
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